[…]his very earliest ones, helping him when he started his things after he'd done savage splendor before he went on to do hisSpeaker 5  42:39  BBC series. This is when you were the what became the colonial Yes, ISpeaker 3  42:44  was out there. Actually, they had packed up. They pac[…]
[…]l accent in those days what?CB: I should think it had a tinge of Fulham in it, which I tried to eliminate. But by the time talkies came I was talking BBC posh like everybody elseI: Well, one had to I suppose, didn’t one, the rather accent or the West End accent. Did you consciously, you must have co[…]
[…]randson of Henry Irving, he was the chief Art Director and very - I learnt a lot from him. The sound department I don't remember, he was a man in the BBC called Rex Howarth, I think he died, I don't know what happened to him.Roy Fowler: What was the sound system that they installed?Vernon Sewel[…]
[…]abs. Give a case people at Soho images, all x Kodak and received all their training for a number of yearsRoy Fowler  18:48  rather like the BBC could train and train people.Dennis Kimbley  18:52  Yeah. Kodak were very good at training people. We also still have our own marketing […]
[…]here for a bit atBasic Films, that’s right, Adam, dear Adam, who’s become a religious maniac I believe.Has he or not?Probably through working for the BBC I expect. [laughter]Is that what happens if you work at the BBC?No! Anyway, he was there. Gosh, who else? Oh dear. Dear, then there was another bo[…]
[…]made etc. And Basil picked up the Timesone morning and found out that they had double crossed him and it was not to be a filmsdepartment, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be underthe Central Office of Information and that was the fatal mistake. I got the cat[…]
[…]orwich union through the Merton Park Studios pension fund. Then I was out of work for a short while after the studio closed, and I had friends in the BBC projection department, and I told them what I was out of work. And they said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular t[…]
[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]
[…]pyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committ[…]
[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
